<p><strong>Prologue</strong></p><p>The wind whipped across the cliff's edge fierce and untamed</p><p>carrying with it the salt of the sea and whispers of the past. From</p><p>the highest turret of Ravencliffe Hall Isabella Harrington watched</p><p>the waves crash against the rocks below each surge like a</p><p>heartbeat against the jagged shoreline. This place she realized was</p><p>alive-a place haunted not by mere memories but by something</p><p>more palpable an ancient sorrow woven into the very stones.</p>